Your Brain on Facts
Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
How Does Your Garden Grow, with Nooks and Crannies (ep. 114)
00:50 History of the world
03:20 Hanging gardens of Babylon
05:48 Chinampas, by Nooks and Crannies
1:35 Victory gardens
19:03 Gardening while black
24:00 Cool examples
27:20 In space
Music by Kevin M…
00:34:15 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago, with The Conspirators (ep. 113)
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Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, entire communities wiped out, yet most of us have never heard of what happened in Rosewood 1923, Tulsa 1921, or Chicago…
00:30:40 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Bitty Beasty Buddies, with Everything I Learned From Movies (ep. 112)
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We're under attack by a virus, but what about all the microorganisms that make our food yummy, keep our bodies healthy, and help us reverse our damage to the planet?
01:35…
00:33:25 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Greatest Hits: Black Sparrow and Buffalo Soldiers
Since colonial times, African-Americans have fought in America’s wars. Black soldiers have put their lives on the line for a country that for centuries has enslaved, segregated, and discriminated aga…
00:32:01 |
Tue 09 Jun 2020
All By Myself, with Pontifacts podcast (ep. 111)
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Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name...because there's nobody there. But why?
01:00 Motivations
05:26 Christian hermits
Guest: Pontifacts
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00:35:35 |
Wed 03 Jun 2020
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00:07:45 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
To Plant A Seed, with Better Than Human (ep. 110)
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Livestream 4 The Cure
We spit them out without a second thought, but seeds are as fascinating as they are important.
01:49 Size matters
07:35 Getting aro…
00:40:01 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Greatest Hits: Physician, Test Thyself
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, even if it means inhaling strange gasses, being stung by wasps, or swallowing patient's bodily fluids.
Promo: 5 Minute Wine podcast
Music…
00:33:35 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Against All Odds: Lone Survivor (ep. 109)
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Livestream 4 The Cure
2:00 Ricky Megee
5:48 Jose Alvarenga
Trivia prizes from Fireside Games and Greenbrier Games.
12:53 Anna Bagenholm
Sic Parvis Magna…
00:32:46 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Best Care Anywhere (ep. 108)
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Thank you to all of those who are literally risking their lives while people claim the virus isn't a real threat and demand to be allowed to get haircuts…
00:36:53 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Marvelous Miss Miser, with I Have So Many Questions podcast (ep. 107)
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Frugal is all well and good, but sometimes the people with the most money go to the most drastic extremes to keep every last bit of it.
01:30 John Elwes
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00:33:24 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Bored? Games! (ep. 106)
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Don't Risk getting the facts in your Cranium all Scrabbled up. (Are these puns getting played out? It seems a bit dicey.)
Promo - Deconstruction Workers…
00:36:05 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
It's The End Of The World! (Again) (ep. 105)
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01:40 Puritans and Mother Shipton
04:31 Popes
07:31 Planet Clarion
09:50 Community
12:00 Harriet Livermore
13:19 Prophet Hen of Leeds
16:34 Millerites
2…
00:37:20 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Making Do (ep. 104)
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While we're sheltering in place from the pandemic, we look at how people dealt with the intense shortages of the Great Depression and WWII.
02:05 Aunt S…
00:34:06 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Food, Dubious Food (ep. 103)
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Be a smart cookie and don't fall for these food-based urban legends and conspiracy theories. (Sorry for all the thumps. My new mic stand is not compatible with my wild gestic…
00:37:12 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
Greatest Hits: Well-traveled Bodies
Follow the stories of five people (an outlaw, a murderess, a nightclub dancer, a natural wonder, and a first lady) who covered a lot of ground... after they died.
01:58 Elmer McGurdy
07:24 Hazel Farr…
00:35:22 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Around the World in 80 Birthdays (ep. 102)
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It's birthday time for both the show and the host here at Your Brain On Facts, so let's go around the world to see how different people celebrate theirs.
01:55 Backstory
04:5…
00:39:16 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
To Your Health (Spa) (ep. 101)
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We're having a spa day on Your Brain On Facts. For us, that means myth-disabusement and obscure facts, rather than facials and a mani-pedi.
1:30 History of the spa
07:50 The …
00:31:55 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
100 Facts (and 24 special guests)!
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Your Brain On Facts celebrates 100 episodes with 100+ facts.
Enthusiastic virtual high-fives of thanks to our guest presenters:
01:15 Bunny Trails
02:40 Footnoting History…
00:44:40 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Earths Unsung-est Heroes - Black Inventors, pt 2 (ep. 99)
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if you thought the men got swept under the rug, history has been even less kind to these innovative women.
1:15 Alice Parker
4:30 Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
9:55 Gratitude…
00:27:30 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
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